Tuesday, July 05, 2016

FBI recommends no charges to be filed against Clinton

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday he will not
recommend the Department of Justice seek criminal charges against Hillary
Clinton for her personal email use while secretary of state.

The decision helps remove what was arguably the biggest
threat to her presidential campaign going forward – a criminal referral that
could have led to an indictment – just weeks before her party’s national
convention in Philadelphia where she is set to seal her nomination as the
Democrat standard bearer.

Clinton consistently had downplayed the FBI
investigation, even calling it a “security review,” and as recently as June 3
said there was “absolutely no possibility” she’d be indicted. Weeks ago, a
scathing State Department inspector general report directly countered her
long-running claim that her personal email use was allowed, though her campaign
continued to defend the candidate’s actions.

In the wake of that report, presumptive Republican
nominee Donald Trump stepped up his criticism of her email actions and said she
belongs in “jail.”

The DOJ decision does not strip the email controversy as
a campaign issue – Trump and the Republicans are sure to keep hammering it as
the campaign lurches into full general election mode post-conventions – but
shows the federal investigation did not determine the actions to be criminal,
even if they were ill-advised and potentially damaging to national security.

The decision comes more than a year after knowledge of
Clinton’s use of a personal email and server first became public. Clinton
responded at the time with a point-by-point written explanation and a press
conference in which she said she had opted to use her personal server for
“convenience.”

About This Blog & the National Black Republican Association

Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
In 2005, she became a co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, an organization that is committed to returning African Americans to their Republican Party roots.
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